AlienTree

really just the best day of the year. dont know how it could ever be topped

the biggest takeaway anyone could have from his political project is that actually wanting to represent people goes a really long way when it comes to effectively representing them

Insanely funny to realize you have no understanding of politics and then block me to avoid having to actually contend with a real critical thought - but unsurprising, all told

And, let's remember, the biggest yardstick for failure - your strategy is exactly what Harris did! And she lost! Which, if we're keeping score, clearly means it failed! In the biggest possible way, at the most critical possible moment! In retrospect, we should imagine her trying *anything* else.

Left-wing populism isn't the question - it's any candidate actually willing to oppose Trump, which Harris claimed to be, sucked up all the political oxygen, but never actually was.

Embracing and collaborating with Republicans has consistently paved the path for Trump and Trump-like politics nationwide, and your imagined "centrists" have time and time again come down *against* antifascist policies and actions.

I'm not even saying Gaza was *the* issue to pin this whole election on. I'm saying Harris clearly and openly did not try! You're taking this tone in defense of someone who did not care to represent you or your interests on a wide array of issues, and threw the election with her stubbornness!

The only rational move is a strategy that has consistently, devastatingly failed? The exact strategy that has been associated with every ratcheting of the Overton window to the right over the last 14 years? That's what's rational to do in your mind??

Yes, but anyone with two seconds of political experience should see that each of those issues bleeds more voters than it gains, because all are WILDLY, DEEPLY unpopular - and one of them, maximum deportations, she actually claimed! If she cared about beating Trump, she would have worked for voters.

By the way you imagine it, Harris actually had free reign to be and support anything - no more gay marriage? At least she's not Trump! Maximum deportations, but nicely? Can't vote Trump! Reversing women's suffrage? Sad, but any sane individual would see you have to vote against Trump! Kid shit.

Unfortunately you don't get to unilaterally decide the actions of every person in the country! I'm sure infinite authoritarianism but by Your Guys™ sounds great in theory, but the reality of a democratic political project is that peoples' political will has to be met and represented. Harris refused.

And, in fact, I'll remind you - some of the ones most staunchly denying what Trump signified were key members of the Harris campaign, who opened their arms more to people who are fine with the substance of Trump's agenda and take issue only with the means of delivery than to their base

Did Harris's campaign have no agency in the election? Was it not obvious what and who Trump was, and/or what the Dem base measurably wanted, and therefore a blatantly obvious set of political priorities to follow? Blaming voters for the failures of politicians will always ring hollow.

dairy queen really taking one out of panera's book with that one

who, the dems right now? yes, that's exactly why they're more deserving of our current political energy - their ineptitude left us woefully nationally unprepared for a second Trump campaign, and the whole country pays the price.

it's always "where's your anger for republicans?" it's right here! obviously as angry, at times more. but the whole political project of the american right is inspiring anger and then laughing at it. what good does enabling their mocking do when the ones "supposed" to represent us are abandoning us?

i really cant find myself believing that any more stumping would have overcome the massive moral bottoming out that was her support for israel. the people who dont see genocide as a red line all still voted for her. the people who do should not have been cast away by her campaign as unneeded.

beautiful

Each battle is the same battle. All peoples are the same people. As we keep being forced to reckon with this kind of perspective day after day, the only takeaway I can really reach is that the only future is the one we all build together, and god do we need to get to work

maimai is just too fun honestly. cant wait to spend a ton of time on it again when im back in japan next month

i've made it to 80% through a book, a good 400-500 pages, before deciding there's no way the payoff would be worth getting to. never too late to bail tbh

kind of inspiring that they had all year to cancel it and just forgot

youve never played taiko??? get this girl to an arcade STAT

fascinating, to me supper feels like the fancy one, so i always say dinner

fascinating, makes sense once you get it, but totally offputting on first contact. thank you for confirming!

did they change a wording standard? "whenever a land you control enters" instead of "whenever a land enters under your control?" feels jarring at first glance, almost like it's just a typo. insanely fun and busted looking card though

thus reasonably cementing that the modern self-described Leftists - a group that absolutely would not include Obama, Harris, Schumer, Walz, or Shapiro - are materially different from classical Liberals, and that those differences are fundamentally important when considering how to unsink this ship

and Shapiro is so out of step with the current alignment of the "base" that any true opposition would want to court to have a chance at political relevance right now, he's functionally a poster child of everything the Democratic Party would need to leave behind if it actually wanted to battle Trump

Ok, so two perfect examples of people who aren't doing nearly enough - Walz has done nothing to keep his constituency safe, and has
abdicated all future responsibility (understandably given the threats his family faces, but that retreat makes him unfit to provide the leadership currently needed)

who counts as a true "liberal" in your book, then? what political paradigm are you using for your definitions, and how does it relate to our current political reality?